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Creditable Service

Creditable service under this plan includes all service performed as a uniformed employee in institutions under the jurisdiction of the New York State Department of Corrections or as a security hospital treatment assistant under the jurisdiction of the New York State Office of Mental Health.

“Uniformed employee” includes:

Correction officer

Prison guard

Correction sergeant

Correction lieutenant

Correction captain

Deputy assistant superintendent or warden

Deputy warden and superintendent (for security services)

Superintendent and warden (including first deputy)

Director and assistant director of correction reception center

Director and assistant director of correctional program

Director of community correctional center

Community correctional center assistant

Correction hospital officer

Correction hospital senior officer

Correction hospital charge officer

Correction hospital supervising officer

Correction hospital security supervisor

Correction hospital chief officer

Correction youth camp officer

Correction youth camp supervisor and assistant supervisor

Correctional camp superintendent

Assistant correctional camp superintendent

Director and assistant director of crisis intervention unit

“Security hospital treatment assistant” includes:

Security hospital treatment assistant

Security hospital treatment assistant (Spanish-speaking)

Security hospital senior treatment assistant

Security hospital supervising treatment assistant

Security hospital treatment chief

Service in the following titles is also creditable:

Narcotic addiction control commission officer

Correction officer, sheriff, undersheriff or deputy sheriff in any county in which you were eligible to retire after 25 years of creditable service.

Correction officer employed by the City of New York. To receive credit for this type of service, you must pay the full cost — employer and member, determined by the Comptroller. This amount may be paid either in installments or as a lump sum.

Department of Corrections uniformed employees working in institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department may receive up to 12 years of credit for service in the following titles while assigned to a training academy or to the central office:

Correction officer

Correction sergeant

Correction lieutenant

Correction captain

Correctional services investigator

Correctional services employee investigator

Senior correctional services employee investigator

Corrections services fire and safety coordinator

Director and assistant director of special housing and inmate disciplinary program

Assistant chief of investigations

Director of Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) operations

Correctional facility operations specialist

Director of security staffing project

Correctional security technical services specialist

Assistant commissioner and deputy commissioner

Credit is also available for certain military service. Service performed in titles other than those listed above may count toward your vested, disability and death benefits, but not toward your 25-year service retirement benefit.